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Ex-Topshop boss resurfaces at Whistles
Expect a war on the high street as the cool young designers who have helped make Topshop a fashion leader in recent years are wooed by the high street chain Whistles. A group of senior staff who, one
after the other, have deserted Sir Philip Green's Topshop over the past... [continued]
Another Topshop honcho quits 
Another check-out at Topshop
In Brief: Israel lets it be over Beatles snub
Israel has apologised to the surviving Beatles for banning them from the country in 1965 as a supposed threat to the morals of the nation's youth, via a letter to Julia Baird, sister
of the late John Lennon. Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr are now expected... [continued]
See Ryanair advert
In Town Last Night: Top Tips for Girls book launch
Former Vanity Fair contributing editor Kate Reardon's trusty compendium Top Tips for Girls - a vital reference if you need to know how to remove mould from
a pashmina - enjoyed its launch party at Claridges hotel in Mayfair last night. Among those swapping their handy lifestyle hints were... [continued]
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Jemima and Imran show solidarity
Blair’s new job takes earnings to £7m a year
First Tony Blair took a bank job, now he's added an insurance job to his post-retirement portfolio. The former Prime Minister's new role - as an adviser to Switzerland's biggest
insurer, Zurich Insurance - promises a six-figure salary that will take his post-Downing Street earnings to more... [continued]
Tony Blair's bank job
Cotillard may play Depp’s gangster’s moll
The French actress Marion Cotillard, who made her name playing the iconic singer Edith Piaf in La Vie en Rose, is in negotiations to play a gangster's moll in a new film
about the Depression-era bankrobber John Dillinger. Public Enemies will star Johnny Depp as the notorious Dillinger and producers... [continued]
A-Z of Oscar-nominated films
See trailer for La Vie En Rose
Jemima and Imran show solidarity
Pakistan opposition leader Imran Khan was re-united briefly with his ex-wife Jemima yesterday, as they joined a 400-strong demonstration outside Downing Street.
Protestors booed and waved pictures of slain opposition leader Benazir Bhutto, as Pakistan’s President Pervez Musharraf held talks in London with Gordon
Brown.... [continued]
Eye Witness: Imran Khan on General Musharraf
Eye Witness: Benazir Bhutto assassinated
Wallinger aims high for Kent sculpture
Turner Prize winner Mark Wallinger has been shortlisted for a £2m commission to find the south of England's answer to the Angel of the North. Wallinger and fellow British
artists Rachel Whiteread, Richard Deacon and Christopher Le Brun, and the French artist Daniel Buren, have been tasked... [continued]
Mark Wallinger wins Turner Prize
Campbell left office over media breakdown
Alastair Campbell, former spinmeister to Tony Blair and the crooked newspaper proprietor Lord Maxwell, has admitted he left Downing Street in 2003
partly because he felt he had become a factor in the deteriorating relations with the media and that if he left, things might improve. But he claimed... [continued]
Brown and Dacre, the odd couple
The alternative Campbell diaries
Arctic Monkeys score seven nominations
The Arctic Monkeys look set to dominate this year's NME awards, in sharp contrast with the TV stars and pop singers who dominated the nominations list for the more
mainstream Brit awards. The Sheffield band, who last year followed their record-breaking debut with a well-received second album,... [continued]
Pop acts set to storm Brit Awards
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